The first video game came out of the Manhattan Project.

A scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project created Tennis for Two, humanity's first video game, just to make science less boring.

In 1958, physicist William Higinbotham at Brookhaven Laboratory invented Tennis for Two, the world's first electronic game.

Interestingly, he was involved in the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

The idea came to Higinbotham when he wanted to make science exhibits more lively and understandable to the public.

He and technician Bob Dvorak created a simulated tennis game on an oscilloscope, allowing two players to control the ball back and forth.

The game used an analog computer, which was originally used to calculate ballistic trajectories, but which he turned into mankind's first entertainment tool.

At the exhibition, Tennis for Two had excited crowds lining up to try it out.

It wasn't until the 1970s that the game was recognized as the forerunner of the entire gaming industry.

William Higinbotham died in 1994, leaving behind a remarkable legacy: turning technology once used for war into a source of joy for billions of people.

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